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Creative thought is conventionally believed to involve searching memory andgenerating multiple independent candidate ideas followed by selection andrefinement of the most promising. Honing theory, which grew out of the quantumapproach to describing how concepts interact, posits that what appears to bediscrete, separate ideas are actually different projections of the sameunderlying mental representation, which can be described as a superpositionstate, and which may take different outward forms when reflected upon fromdifferent perspectives. As creative thought proceeds, this representation losespotentiality to be viewed from different perspectives and manifest as differentoutcomes. Honing theory yields different predictions from conventional theoriesabout the mental representation of an idea midway through the creative process.These predictions were pitted against one another in two studies: oneclosed-ended and one open-ended. In the first study, participants wereinterrupted midway through solving an analogy problem and wrote down what theywere thinking in terms of a solution. In the second, participants wereinstructed to create a painting that expressed their true essence and describehow they conceived of the painting. For both studies, na\"ive judgescategorized these responses as supportive of either the conventional view orthe honing theory view. The results of both studies were significantly moreconsistent with the predictions of honing theory. Some implications forcreative cognition, and cognition in general, are discussed.

The Form of a Half-baked Creative Idea: Empirical Explorations into the Structure of Ill-defined Mental Representations